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Episode three: Giraffe Manor, Nairobi

Guests breakfast with giraffes at this Thirties Scottish-style hunting lodge set on Samburu tribal land skirting Nairobi National Park. Literally. The resident Rothschild giraffes like to poke their heads through the dining room windows hoping for a snack when guests sit down to eat.